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(No Model.)

B. E. HIGGINS.

GATE. No. 556,887. Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

756172555 65, v [HZ/6771971 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDlVARD E. HIGGINS, OF CROXV SUMMIT, EST VIRGINIA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 556,887, dated March24, 1896.

Application filed June 12, 1895. Serial No, 552,602 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Crow Summit, in the county of Jackson and State of estVirginia, have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gates; and it consists incertain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

My gate consists of the horizontal bars, (marked 4,) all of whichexcepting the upper one have their ends fastened between the end uprightbars, (marked 5.) The top bar passes freely through the slot formed bythe rear upright bars (one being placed on either side of. thehorizontal bars) and is hinged bya elevis and hook to the hinge-post.The top rail has its front end connected to the lever 3. The lever 3 isformed by placinga narrow strip on either side of the gate, and has itstop end connected to the top rail of the gate and its lower end to thehorizontal latch 1, and is bolted at an intermediate point to one of thefixed rails of the gate. The latch 1, besides being pivoted to the lowerend of the lever 3, is also bolted to the handle 2 at its rear end.

The vertical handle2 is pivoted to the rear end of the latch 1 and alsoto one of the fixed rails of the gate.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination with a gate having a loose top rail carrying theupper hinge, of a horizontal latch, and a vertical lever pivoted to oneof the fixed rails of the gate, and connecting the latch with the frontend of the loose top rail, substantially as shown.

2. The combination with a gate, of the top rail 4 connected at its rearto the hinge-post, and passing freely between the rear upright battensof the gate; the horizontal latch 1, the vertical latch-handle 2, andthe lever 3 pivoted to the latch, to the front end of the top rail 4:,and to one of the fixed rails of the gate, sustantially as shown.

E. E. HIGGINS. lVitnesses:

N. G. Peronn'r'r, H. A. IVICELFRESH.

